The generously illustrated, lavishly documented story of NSK (Neue
Slowenische Kunst), the eastern European art collective present at
the last revolution of the twentieth century. This book is the
generously illustrated, lavishly documented, critically narrated
story of one of the most significant art collectives of the late
twentieth century. In 1984, three groups of artists in post-Tito
Yugoslavia-the music and multimedia group Laibach, the visual arts
group Irwin, and the theater group Scipion Nasice Sisters
Theater-came together to form the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) art
collective. Adopting the symbols, codes, appearances, and
discourses of fascism, nationalism, state power, socialist-realist,
and avant-garde art, and pushing the strategies of
overidentification and subversive affirmation to their limits, NSK
exposed the common foundations of various regimes, systems, and
ideologies, while affirming that "art and totalitarianism are not
mutually exclusive." Employing music, video, film, exhibitions,
writing, graphic design, architecture, theater, and public
relations to probe the aesthetic possibilities of declining
socialism and proliferating capitalism, NSK introduced an
idiosyncratic version of postmodernism (the Retro-Avant-Garde) into
the globalizing cultural sphere. Combining primary documents,
period artifacts, critical essays, and contextual notes, NSK from
Kapital to Capital documents NSK's collective practice during the
final decade of Yugoslavia-from the first (and banned) Laibach
concert (1980) in a small proletarian mining town in Slovenia to
the series of projects launched by individual NSK groups entitled
Kapital (1991-92). This illuminating chronicle of NSK's work and
its reception is produced in conjunction with the first major
museum exhibition devoted to NSK. Designed by Novi Kolektivizem
(New Collectivism), the graphic design section of NSK, the cover of
each individual copy of the book is printed with a custom detail;
no two covers exactly are the same. Copublished with Moderna
Galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Contributors
Eda Cufer, Goran Dordevic, Slavoj Zizek, Marina Grzinic, Rastko
Mocnik, Marina Grzinic, Lev Kreft, Tomaz Mastnak, Mladen Dolar,
Chrissie Iles, Boris Groys, Inke Arns, Alexei Monroe, Catherine
Wood, Daniel Ricardo Quiles, Anthony Gardner, Barbara Borcic,
Alexei Yurchak, Dejan Krsic, and others Exhibition Moderna
galerija, Ljubljana: 12 May-17 August 2015 Van Abbemuseum,
Eindhoven: March-August, 2016 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art,
Moscow: Fall 2016
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